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African American Slavery - a Social Ecological Approach

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  • Drago? Osoianu

    (Ovidius University of Constan?a Graduate School of Humanities)

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This paper aims to briefly explore American slavery from a social ecological point of view. As a historical and economic institution, this (pre)capitalist structure is related to social hierarchies of power in which a cultural dichotomy is anchored within the inner fabric of a specific society. Thus, there are contiguous oppositions between the white and the black, man and woman, human and nature, identity and alterity. This societal antinomy has been exported to Nature in such a way that both human slaves and the environment are apprehended as commodities satisfying the white people's economic or personal needs. Nevertheless, the binary opposition of master and slave or Nature represents a cultural construct and it ought to be deconstructed in order to show that there is an ontological or, at least, axiological continuity between the oppressor and the oppressed, between the economic structures and the environment.

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  • Drago? Osoianu, 2015. "African American Slavery - a Social Ecological Approach," Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series, Ovidius University of Constantza, Faculty of Economic Sciences, vol. 0(2), pages 166-170, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:ovi:oviste:v:xv:y:2015:i:2:p:166-170
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    Keywords

    slavery; Social Ecology; power; property; nature;
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    JEL classification:

    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
    • Y80 - Miscellaneous Categories - - Related Disciplines - - - Related Disciplines
    • Q50 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - General
    • P14 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Property Rights

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